Our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Longitudinal studies of the determinants of children's health are complex, costly, infrequent, and incredibly valuable. It has become clear in recent years that the periconceptional environment plays a surprisingly large role in the health of the resulting child. This short introduction to this mini-monograph briefly recaps the articles included herein and reminds us that adequate forethought and planning will result in a study that could shed new light on the earliest determinants of children's health and thereby fill critical data gaps.

• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Environmental Health Perspectives

• Publication date

  2003-09-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1289/EHP.6733PMID 14698933PMCID 1241799
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• Whence Healthy Children ? | Mini-Monograph Methodologic and Statistical Approaches to Studying Human Fertility and Environmental Exposure

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• Putative effects of endocrine disrupters on pubertal development in the human.

  2002cited by this paper
• Endocrine programming and fetal origins of adult disease.

  2002cited by this paper
• Clues from wildlife to create an assay for thyroid system disruption.

  2002cited by this paper
• Fetal, infant, and childhood growth are predictors of coronary heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension in adult men and women.

  2000cited by this paper
• Fetal origins of coronary heart disease

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• Impact of preconception enrollment on birth enrollment and timing of exposure assessment in the initial vanguard cohort of the U.S. National Children’s Study

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• Pilot test and validation of the Peak Day method of prospective determination of ovulation against a handheld urine hormone monitor

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• A Review on Job Stressor in the Perspective of Health Care Industry

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• Impact of the physical environment of psychiatric wards on the use of seclusion

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• Lying architecture: Experiencing space from a hospital bed

  2011cites this paper
• A socioeconomic assessment of Forest Service American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects: eight case studies

  2011cites this paper
• Exposures to multiple environmental chemicals (lead, methylmercury and polychlorinated biphenyls) among childbearing-aged women in the U.S.

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• Science and securitization: Objectivation, the authority of the speaker and mobilization of scientific facts

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• Use of time to pregnancy in environmental epidemiology and surveillance.

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• Enhancing a primary care environment: a case study of effects on patients and staff in a single general practice.

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• Beyond the gap: relevance, fields of practice and the securitizing consequences of (democratic peace) research

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• Foreword. Expanding Methodologies for Capturing Day-Specific Probabilities of Conception.

  2006cites this paper
• Children's exposure to environmental pollutants and biomarkers of genetic damage. I. Overview and critical issues.

  2006cites this paper
• Using cervical mucus and other easily observed biomarkers to identify ovulation in prospective pregnancy trials.

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• Workshop recommendations for the preconception cohort of the National Children's Study.

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• Studying time to pregnancy by use of a retrospective design.

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• Detailed review of transgenic rodent mutation assays.

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